The Kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart

May 19, 2005

0h 49m

★ 0.0

Overview

In June of 2002, Salt Lake City was the setting for a chilling kidnapping. An angelic young girl is stolen from her bedroom in the middle of the night. The most unlikely of victims in a seemingly motiveless crime. The abduction of Elizabeth Smart was so bizarre and unique that it transfixed America.

Genres

Documentary

Crime

Production Companies

DSP

Channel 4 Television

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Herself

Elizabeth Smart

Narrator

Juliet Stevenson

Self

Dan Barnes

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